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#12 — David Benatar | Is It Immoral To Have Children?

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Is Death a Good Thing?

i understand harm in essentially utilitarian measure, to be judged by suffering. But i feel like the a symmetry argument that you present, if it holds, would also hold for living beings. I don't see why the same argument wouldn't apply to say that we have a preference to being painlessly killed. In this specific case, lisa saying that this is, this is a good thing. ewhy doyou? Why o you draw that inference that from it it's in your interest that it be published, to it not harming you?

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